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Emotional Contrast or Compensation? How Support Reminders Influence the Pain of Acute Peer Disapproval in Preadolescents
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Thomaes, Sander; Sedikides, Constantine; Reijntjes, Albert; Brummelman, Eddie; Bushman, Brad J. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
When children experience habitual peer difficulties, adults often remind them that many people care about them. How do such reminders of support impact children's emotional responses to acute experiences of peer disapproval? Intuitively, support reminders would exert compensatory effects attenuating the emotional impact of acute disapproval.…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship, Emotional Response
Components of Students' Grade Expectations for Public Speaking Assignments
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Larseingue, Matt; Sawyer, Chris R.; Finn, Amber N. – Communication Education, 2012
Although previous research has linked students' expected grades to numerous pedagogical variables, this factor has been all but ignored by instructional communication scholars. In the present study, 315 undergraduates were presented with grading scenarios representing differing combinations of course rigor, teacher immediacy, and student…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Componential Analysis, Assignments
Knowledge Acquisition from Structural Descriptions.
Hayes-Roth, Frederick; McDermott, John – 1976
The learning machine described in this paper acquires concepts representable as conjunctive forms of the predicate calculus and behaviors representable as productions (antecedent-consequent pairs of such conjunctive forms): these concepts and behavior rules are inferred from sequentially presented pairs of examples by an algorithm that is probably…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Componential Analysis, Computational Linguistics